"In a time when social divisions seemed unbridgeable and nuclear war appeared imminent, Star Trek offered a positive vision of the future where a united and peaceful humanity explored the stars on behalf of a Federation in which poverty, disease and violent conflict were mostly things of the past."
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Sebastian Roblin, “Star Trek’s Original Series Brought the Cold War Into Space”, War Is Boring, Medium (October 28, 2016).
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